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Liou, Gloria; Bonner, Cavan V.; Tay, Louis – International Journal of Testing, 2022
With the advent of big data and advances in technology, psychological assessments have become increasingly sophisticated and complex. Nevertheless, traditional psychometric issues concerning the validity, reliability, and measurement bias of such assessments remain fundamental in determining whether score inferences of human attributes are…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Computer Assisted Testing, Adaptive Testing, Data
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Nowell, Sallie W.; Watson, Linda R.; Faldowski, Richard A.; Baranek, Grace T. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2018
The goal of this paper is to examine the psychometric properties of a live-coded behavioral measure of joint attention, the "Attention-Following and Initiating Joint Attention Protocol" (JA Protocol), in order to assist researchers and clinicians in identifying when this measure may meet their joint attention assessment needs. Data from…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Attention, Measures (Individuals), Behavior Rating Scales
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Ramelow, Daniela; Currie, Dorothy; Felder-Puig, Rosemarie – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2015
School climate measurement is a long-standing topic in educational research. This review article provides an overview and appraisal of school climate measures published between 2003 and 2013 in scientific journals. A search for published school climate instruments for secondary school students was made in three databases. Twelve articles meeting…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Measures (Individuals), Secondary School Students, Journal Articles
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Porter, Andrew C.; Polikoff, Morgan S.; Goldring, Ellen; Murphy, Joseph; Elliott, Stephen N.; May, Henry – Educational Administration Quarterly, 2010
Research has consistently shown that principal leadership matters for successful schools. Evaluating principals on the behaviors shown to improve student learning should be an important leverage point for raising leadership quality. Yet principals are often evaluated with the use of instruments with no theoretical background and little, if any,…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Instructional Leadership, Principals, Test Construction
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Matson, Johnny L.; Gonzalez, Melissa L.; Wilkins, Jonathan; Rivet, Tessa T. – Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 2008
The reliability of a new scale to assess Autistic Disorder, Pervasive Developmental Disorder, Not Otherwise Specified (PDD-NOS), and Asperger's Disorder in children was examined. Parents or other caregivers rated symptoms of 207 children between 2 and 16 years of age. The scale, which had 40 items in the final version, correlated highly with…
Descriptors: Autism, Interrater Reliability, Criteria, Psychopathology
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Caselman, Tonia D.; Self, Patricia A. – Children & Schools, 2008
Early identification of social-emotional behavioral problems in infants and preschoolers is critical. Nine parent-report and caregiver/teacher-report instruments measuring preschool social-emotional behavioral problems and strengths are reviewed. Advantages to the use of parent-report and caregiver/teacher-report instruments are that they are easy…
Descriptors: Identification, Psychometrics, Evaluation Methods, Child Caregivers
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Quereshi, M. Y.; Ostrowski, Michael J. – Journal of Clinical Psychology, 1985
Administered three Wechsler adult intelligence scales to 72 undergraduates and tested the quality of means, variances, and covariances, utilizing subtest scale scores and IQs. Results indicated that the three scales were not parallel. Generally, the subtest scaled scores exhibited less similarity across the three scales than the IQ estimates.…
Descriptors: College Students, Comparative Analysis, Higher Education, Intelligence Tests
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Plante, Elena; Vance, Rebecca – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 1994
Twenty-one language tests that included norms for children ages 4 and 5 were reviewed for information on 10 psychometric criteria. Administration of the 4 tests meeting the most criteria to 20 preschool children with specific language impairments and 20 controls found that only 1 (the Structured Photographic Expressive Language Test) provided…
Descriptors: Language Impairments, Language Tests, Preschool Education, Psychometrics
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Campbell, Duncan G.; And Others – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 1996
A study of 83 people working in the field of autism evaluated the psychometric properties of the Autism Survey, an instrument to assess respondents' knowledge about autism. The survey was found to measure one factor, to be stable across time, and to have an internally consistent total score. (Author/CR)
Descriptors: Adults, Autism, Knowledge Level, Measurement Techniques
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Hallberg, Lillemor R. M.; And Others – Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 1992
The Swedish version of the Communication Strategies scale of the Communication Profile for the Hearing Impaired was evaluated in terms of descriptive statistics, corrected item-total correlations, principal component analysis, and internal consistency reliability. The study concludes that the scale is an adequately reliable and clinically useful…
Descriptors: Adaptive Behavior (of Disabled), Communication Skills, Hearing Impairments, Psychometrics
Fox, Robert A.; DeShaw, Jeannette M. – Education and Training in Mental Retardation, 1993
The Milestone Reinforcer Survey was developed to assess reinforcer preferences of adults with mild to profound retardation living in community settings. Psychometric properties of the survey were established with 120 adults. The total reinforcer scores were found to be internally consistent, consistent across raters, and stable over time.…
Descriptors: Adults, Behavior Modification, Mental Retardation, Positive Reinforcement
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Matson, Johnny L.; Russell, Deirdre – Research in Developmental Disabilities, 1994
The Psychopathology Instrument for Mentally Retarded Adults--Sexuality Scale was developed and used to study 86 adults with mild/moderate mental retardation. Psychometric characteristics were favorable. Differences in the rate of sexually aberrant behavior are addressed as a function of living and work placement, positive history of sexual abuse,…
Descriptors: Adults, Mild Mental Retardation, Moderate Mental Retardation, Psychometrics
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Wilson, Michael J.; Bullock, Lyndal M. – Behavioral Disorders, 1989
Six behavior rating scales used with children with problematic behaviors were reviewed for psychometric soundness of reliability and validity. They are: Behavior Dimensions Rating Scale; Behavior Evaluation Scale; Child Behavior Checklist, Teacher Report Form; Devereux Elementary School Behavior Rating Scale; Revised Behavior Problem Checklist;…
Descriptors: Behavior Disorders, Behavior Problems, Behavior Rating Scales, Elementary Secondary Education
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Cooper, Eileen – Journal of Creative Behavior, 1991
This paper critiques the following tests of creativity: (1) the Torrance Test of Creative Thinking; (2) the Creativity Assessment Packet; (3) subtests of the Structure of the Intellect Learning Abilities Test; (4) Thinking Creatively with Sounds and Words; (5) Thinking Creatively in Action and Movement; and (6) the Khatena-Torrance Creative…
Descriptors: Creativity, Creativity Tests, Divergent Thinking, Elementary Secondary Education
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Antonak, Richard F.; Harth, Robert – Mental Retardation, 1994
Psychometric analyses of data from 230 individuals yielded a 29-item 4-scale revision of the original 50-item 5-scale Mental Retardation Attitude Inventory. Results showed adequate item characteristics; adequate reliability and homogeneity; adequate reliability, homogeneity, specificity, and independence of the four scales; and initial validity…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Attitudes toward Disabilities, Mental Retardation, Psychometrics
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